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CICW Grants Fund 49 New Projects in Worship and Preaching

Vital Worship, Vital Preaching grants fund diverse projects for worshiping communities and teacher-scholars.

News Item | September 06, 2024

Traditional Keerthanai Concert with English Translations

This Manamahizh Keerthani Kuzhu concert in India includes Tamil-language Christian keerthanai praise and devotional songs sung in the traditional manner. Group members sang in Tamil but translated the lyrics into English.

Article | May 02, 2024

Tamil Christians Revive Keerthanai Music

Christians in South India are reviving keerthanais, poems of Christian praise and devotion sung in the Tamil language. They are working to bring this cultural expression back into church worship

Feature Story | May 02, 2024

Latest Round of CICW Grants to Fund 37 Worship and Preaching Renewal Projects

Vital Worship, Vital Preaching grants fund new projects for worshiping communities and teacher-scholars.

News Item | April 25, 2024

Grants Will Fund Projects to Revitalize Worship and Preaching

The newest wave of Vital Worship, Vital Preaching grants will fund 54 projects across the United States and Canada starting Jan. 1, 2024.

News Item | December 15, 2023

46 Vital Worship, Vital Preaching Grants Awarded

The Calvin Institute of Christian Worship (CICW) announces with gratitude forty-six new Vital Worship, Vital Preaching Grants to recipients across the United States and Canada, including five Teacher-Scholar grants and forty-one Worshiping Communities grants.

News Item | April 14, 2023

First Round of Vital Worship Grants awarded for 2023 by the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship  

The Calvin Institute of Christian Worship has announced 15 projects for funding in this first round of grants awarded for 2023-2024, 11 in the Teacher-Scholar stream of Grants and 4 in the Worshiping Communities stream of grants.

News Item | November 30, 2022

Let the Children Come

Splitting into age-divided worship each Sunday doesn't necessarily result in kids who go on to choose worship as adults. That's why pastors are talking about intergenerational worship.

Feature Story | August 03, 2022

Vital Worship Grants awarded for 2022 by the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship  

The Calvin Institute of Christian Worship  announced today that it will fund 25 Vital Worship Grants projects to Worshiping Communities for 2022-2023 as part of its Vital Worship Grants Program.   This group of grants puts us over the 1000 mark for grants awarded through this program. Thanks be to God!

News Item | April 14, 2022

Birgitta Johnson on Praise and Worship Music

Praise and worship music can lift worshipers’ hearts to God and unite people across culture, religious tradition, and background. But the genre is not meant to be the only kind of music in a congregation’s repertoire.

Conversation | January 07, 2019

Birgitta Johnson on New African American Ecumenical Hymnal

One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism is a new Protestant hymnal compiled by a core committee of worship arts ministers and scholars. It goes deep and wide into the multiple streams of black Christian music and worship.

Conversation | January 07, 2019

Music, Congregational Identity, and the Relationships that Spark Effective Ministry

How does music express and form a congregation’s identity? How can that identity be defined and shaped by the relationships it seeks to nurture and the mission it seeks to promote?

Audio | February 17, 2017

Innovation in Worship: Working with a Team to Make Healthy Changes

Listen to a diverse group of panelists from various churches across North America describe how they envisioned and led their congregations through changes in worship.

Audio | February 16, 2017

Shaping a Congregation's Worship DNA

The workshop offers wisdom for designing and shaping the first year of worship in new and restart church settings.

Audio | February 14, 2017

Sandra Van Opstal on The Next Worship

While some U.S. politicians play on fears about ethnic minorities, changing demographic trends actually offer churches a huge opportunity to create new forms of worship.

Conversation | April 07, 2016

Wisdom for Leading Through Changes

Is your worshiping community facing change in worship and looking for wisdom and advice? Do you believe change is needed in your worship and wonder how to initiate it in healthy ways?

Video | April 06, 2016

Stroke Survivors in our Worshiping Communities

This workshop presents an ethnographic study describing the experiences of stroke survivors in their church communities and two worship services planned for these participants.

Audio | March 04, 2016

Sandra Van Opstal on Multicultural Millennials in Worship

You might be surprised to learn what matters in worship to multicultural millennials in this urban Chicago church.

Conversation | December 17, 2015

Monique Ingalls on Why Scholars Can Stop Worship Wars

So many worship conversations go awry because people and congregations don’t know how to talk about what they do or value in worship. Both Christian and non-Christian scholars can help.

Conversation | December 15, 2015

The Wardrobe of Easter: Love

What better place to celebrate the Good News of God’s agape and to get the instruction manual for learning how to live it out toward others than in the congregation of saints on Sunday morning? There we gather to hear about and to celebrate, to receive instruction and to pledge anew.

Reflection | April 13, 2014